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Following his retirement, Hijman Binger created a daily prayer book, drawing its texts from well-known sources and illustrating the manuscript with the help of his children. Completed in 1820, the…
Contributor:
Hijman (Ḥayim ben Mordecai), Marcus, and Anthonie Binger
Places:
Amsterdam, United Kingdom of the Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1820
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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
Contributor:
Moses Michael Rosenboim
Places:
Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia
(Trzcianka, Poland)
Date:
1848
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This remarkable illustration is at the same time a shiviti—traditionally, a decorative plaque bearing the verse: “I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence”—and a topographic map of the land of Israel…
Contributor:
Moses Ganbash
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1838–1839